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  1. Poles in apartment

    INT of apartment, clothing hanging on coat rack. Girl kisses mother, boy kisses mother, sick child in bed, CUs. Girl with kitten. Older man cleaning tile floor.

  2. Simon Makon sings Yiddish folk songs

    Yiddish folk songs, sung by Simon Makon, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto.

  3. German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939

    Warsaw, Poland 1939: Refugees on the streets of Warsaw, VS of people in the immediate aftermath of a German air raid. CU: a young woman is very uncomfortable with the camera on her, she holds her hand to her face, her expression is between a smile and despair, she is trying to remain composed for the camera. MS, a woman carries a bundle of all of her belongings wrapped in a blanket on her back as she flees from her neighborhood on the outskirts of Warsaw's city center that has been under attack by the Germans. 01:12:17: Dead horse, covered in lime, being dragged from the middle of the stree...

  4. Rivka Lozansky-Bogomolnaya collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, and photograph albums relating to the life of people in the shtetl Butrimantz (Butrimonys), Lithuania, before 1941. It also contains a manuscript written by Riva Lozansky that describe the destruction of Butrimantz; the book, "If I Forget Thee..the destruction of the shtetl Butrimantaz," is based upon the manuscript.

  6. Airship construction

    Airship construction. Workers gather in circle.

  7. Stan Ostern documents

    Contains a notarized copy of the birth certificate of the Stan Ostern [donor] (born March 22, 1935, Poland) under Russian occupation and an identity card from the Feldafing Displaced persons' camp.

  8. Polish cavalry

    Footage of Polish Cavalry soldiers. Cannot confirm location where this was shot, but Bryan references shooting these scenes in 1937. Scene with six Polish soldiers sitting down, looking at papers or maps and discussing something. Cut to soldiers loading cannons that look more like WWI artillery rather than WWII. They have wooden wheels, etc. Repeat of the horses rushing down the hillside, driven by soldiers, rather random/staged looking battle scenes, one of the soldiers is on a field phone in one of the MCUs. Followed by shots of tanks and more soldiers, this time wearing combat helmets ra...

  9. Zinnowald Schule, Berlin

    Zinnowald Schule in Berlin. Girls on bicycles. INT classroom. Art class. CU, girl's drawing.

  10. Nazi Germany 1937: Hitler Youth girls on a country road; BDM; farming

    Sequence of outtakes. BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart. Road with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside two girls perform a singing act for the camera, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, resting. Antiquated shaking threshing machine. CUs hay. Farmers working. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture, "Germany 1937,"...

  11. Warum ich Europea verlassen, und was ich in Amerika erreicht habe

    The collection includes Dr. Eduard Bloch's autobiography titled “Warum ich Europea verlassen, und was ich in Amerika erreicht habe,” written between 1941 and 1945. In his autobiography, Eduard provides a history of his family and details his life in Austria and his family’s immigration to the United States as well as and his career as a physician, including his professional acquaintance with the Hitler family. The collection also includes a translation of the autobiography titled “Why I left Europe and what I have achieved in America.”

  12. Jüdische Gemeinde Wiesbaden collection

    Includes file of 1,100 cards with individual personal data, created by Wiesbaden Gestapo until 1942; list of deportees from Wiesbaden to the "East," with some annotations made after the war; burial register of the Platterstrasse cemetery, 1940-1942; postwar card file of approximately 350 cards on individuals to 1950.

  13. Displaced persons board ship in Bremerhaven, Germany to relocate to the United States

    Bremerhaven, Germany at the port of embarkation. US military personnel mill about, arranging signs, helping DPs with luggage, guiding the refugees through this stage of the emigration process. They are on their way to the United States, a large painted banner on the docks reads: "Welcome to the first DP Emigrants to the US, Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation" Refugees board the ship (the General Wm. M. Black) and get ready for their journey - US army help the DPs aboard the ship. Everyone seems very happy, even the children, some have looks of bewilderment on their faces. All are in overcoats,...

  14. M19 two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe

    British made, double sided, color topographical silk escape map, Sheet 43C and D, showing areas of the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Germany, with an ancillary map of the new frontier, Belgium and Germany. The maps were produced by Branch M19, which was created in December 1939 to facilitate escape and evasion strategies for soldiers and prisoners-of-war by helping them find their way to safety from behind enemy lines. Silk was used because it was durable, easy to conceal, and made no noise. Maps were issued to RAF pilots, Special Forces, and other troops. M19 developed ways to smuggle ...

  15. Buchenwald report

    Contains one two-page newsletter, published September 2, 1938, for Yedioth Hayom in Tel Aviv, with an anonymous report about the conditions in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The information in the article was gleaned from a former prisoner of the camp and gives the location, makeup, and atmosphere of the camp.

  16. Polish YMCA: classroom, orchestra, swim team

    Women exit a building. CU sign "Polska YMCA". People file through a hallway looking at posters, checking their coats. Boys stand in front of a doorway. Doors open to reveal a classroom of teenagers learning the English language. Man conducts an orchestra. CUs, the listening audience. Coach instructs swim team how to dive properly. Boys swim and play around, file into a locker room.

  17. Animated map and graphics of Poland for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

    Animated map of Poland showing the industrial region of Silesia and its factories. The map serves as a transition from this region of southern Poland to the northwestern region of Poland and the port city of Gdynia. This map was created by Philip Stapp. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  18. Prelude to war in Poland; Polish army; Smigly-Rydz

    HAS, Polish army parading through the streets of Warsaw, the cannons are drawn by horses, tanks roll by, men sweeping debris, motorcycle troops: this is a sign/prelude to war. Massive crowds line the parade route. LS, a large number of civilians walking around on a field, there are Polish military regiments lined up along the field, buildings are visible in the distance. All the regiments were rounded up on the field and then marched from the field through Warsaw. MS of dignitaries at the reviewing stand, everyone is wearing top hats, including President Moscicki. HAS, military parade. The ...

  19. Denise Hans photographs

    Contains nine photographs pertaining to the experiences of Denise Hans, her siblings, and cousins in hiding in a Sister of Zion convent in the Netherlands.

  20. Concentration camp for Polish juveniles in Łódź

    Film about the detention camp for children in Łódź at Przemysłowa street, where Polish children and young people were used as forced laborers. Includes contemporary oral histories.